Highlight on Bantayan

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MAYOR CHRIS ESCARIO: “We really need the help from the outside”.

The Foreign Correspondent have a made a report about Bantayan Island. 

It gives an overview about the situation of the people there now.  It touched the discussion on climate change and highlighted Yeb Sano's call to take drastic actions now to prevent future disasters.

Politics was also emphasized as somehow a factor why help was almost not coming to some of the areas in Bantayan Island Group.

It ends, however, with hope as with what Vince Escario said:

“There is no typhoon strong enough to bring us down and we will rise again. To see what was once a beautiful island suffer such devastation, when there is no hope seemingly coming, but to see your ordinary neighbours, ordinary people with very little in life but so much richness in spirit and in love, what greater power is there than that?”

And with an appeal:
“If we are to look forward to the future, we have to take things into control. We have to control how we live and live more responsibly and be real stewards of this island. That kind of future unfortunately is not in our hands. That kind of future is in the hands of the much bigger, more powerful, more developed nations. We just can’t continue to be irresponsible and suffer this kind of fate that we are suffering today”.